Ok sorry no pictures cause I am not allowed cameras or cellphones in work. I was outside and seen A mayfly today that completely befuddled me. It was a male definitely with big white eyes, a yellowish thorax, a clear-like abdomen with a brown tipped end, 2 tails with little pincer like things at the end and mottled wings. Unsure what it is but any help would be useful. Plus seen a couple large brown mayflies flying around as well couldn't catch one but also didn't want to look like an idiot on camera as well. Sorry I couldn't be more descriptive.

This question brings up an important idea when identifying may flies. He calls this mayfly; Male Maccaffertium modestum (Cream Cahill).When you type in the search box cream cahill you get this; Maccaffertium mediopunctatum (Cream Cahill). The first is a very different fly from the second. Size is perhaps the biggest difference, the first fly isn't even a 1/4 inch long, 5 mm while the second fly is over a 1/2 inch long, 13.5 mm. Without a picture I wouldn't bet on either but it could also be P. mollis wich is probably the most proliftic hatch of small flies this time of the year 3/8 inch or 8 mm. Size is everything.

Posted on: 2012/5/27 11:12

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